Corwin Malcolm Davis

Assistant professor, Pacific School of Religion

The Rev. Dr. Corwin Malcolm Davis serves as assistant professor of Africana religions, theologies and culture at Pacific School of Religion. His research engages African Diasporic religiosities, psychologies of religion, feminist and queer theories, and cultural studies.

An honors graduate of Belmont University, Davis earned an M.Div. from Vanderbilt Divinity School as a Dean’s Scholar. During his time there, he was a Cal Turner Fellow for Moral Leadership and was recognized with the Robert Lewis Butler Award and the William A. Newcomb Prize, presented to the student who best exemplifies the minister as theologian.

Davis earned his Ph.D. from Emory University, where he received the George W. Woodruff Fellowship, the Centennial Scholars Fellowship and externally awarded fellowships from the Louisville Institute, the Forum for Theological Exploration, and Sacred Writes. He has also served in leadership as the associate director for the national Theological Education between the Times project and as the director of the Center for Academic Success at Candler School of Theology.

A third-generation clergyperson, Davis is an ordained itinerant elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. His service for the church also includes his role as a consultant and editor for the AMEC Publishing House.